gThumb: Gnome Office candidate

[Charles Goodwin <charlie xwt org>]

Should be alongeside, if not above, 'Eye of Gnome' under 'Image 
Viewers'.  It really is quite advanced and I'm surprised it's not 
already a Gnome Office component.

http://gthumb.sourceforge.net/

gThumb is an image viewer:
- View single images (including GIF animations)
- Supported image types: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, XPM
- View EXIF data attached to JPEG images
- View in fullscreen mode
- View images rotated, flipped, in black and white

gThumb is an image browser:

- Browse your hard disk showing you thumbnails of image files
- Thumbnails are saved in the same database used by Nautilus
  so you don't waste disk space
- Automatically update the content of a folder
- Copy, move, delete images and folders
- Bookmarks of folders and catalogs

gThumb is an image organizer:
- Add comments to images
- Organize images in catalogs, catalogs in libraries
- Print images and comments
- Search for images on you hard disk and save the result as a catalog
- Search criteria remain attached to the catalog so you can update it
  when you want

gThumb is an image editor:
- Change image hue, saturation, lightness, contrast and adjust colors
- Scale and rotate images
- Save images in the following formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TGA

gThumb is an advanced tool:
- Slide Shows
- Set an image as Desktop background
- Create index image
- Create web albums
- Rename images in series
- Convert image format
- Change images date and time
- JPEG lossless transformations
- Find duplicated images.
- Maintenance tools: remove old/all comments; backup and restore
  comments; remove old/all thumbnails
- Fully documented

gThumb is a Bonobo component:
- Image viewer component
- Differences with the EOG component: display GIF animations;
  print the image and its comment